NHER 62136 (Find Spot record) - Prehistoric worked flints

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Summary

Fieldwalking at this location between 2017 and 2019 recovered a large and diverse assemblage of prehistoric worked flints, comprising a Lower Palaeolithic scraper; Upper Palaeolithic blades; Early Neolithic leaf-shaped arrowheads, scrapers and blades; a Neolithic flaked axehead or chisel and polished axehead fragment; Neolithic/Bronze Age scrapers, cores, flakes and an unusual retouched flake implement; a Late Neolithic oblique arrowhead; a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age oblique arrowhead, sickle fragment and fabricator and Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged arrowheads and plano-convex knives.

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Map sheet	TM08NE
Civil Parish	QUIDENHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

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February-November 2017. Fieldwalking. [1].
3 Upper Palaeolithic flint blades.
2 Early Neolithic flint scrapers, 1 leaf-shaped arrowhead and 29 blades.
9 Neolithic/Bronze Age flint scrapers, 4 borers, 1 core, 57 blades and 320 flakes.
1 Late Neolithic oblique flint arrowhead.
1 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age sickle fragment and 1 fabricator (used for striking iron pyrite to light fires).
3 Early Bronze Age barbed and tanged flint arrowheads and 1 plano-convex knife.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 5 September 2017 and 2 April 2018. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 24 August 2023.

April 2018. Metal-detecting. [2].
1 Early Neolithic flint leaf-shaped arrowhead and 1 scraper.
1 Neolithic flaked flint axehead or chisel and 1 ground and polished flint axehead fragment.
4 Neolithic/Bronze Age flint scrapers, 55 cores and 40 flakes.
2 Early Bronze Age plano-convex flint knives.
Information from PAS import.
E. McDonald (HES), 4th February 2019 and P. Watkins (HES), 1 March 2021.

April 2018-March 2019. [3].
1 Lower Palaeolithic flint scraper.
1 Neolithic/Bronze Age retouched flake implement of uncertain function.
1 Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age oblique arrowhead.
Information from PAS import.
P. Watkins (HES), 15 September 2023.

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--- SNF50955 Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (7)

Object Types (30)

SCRAPER (TOOL) (Lower Palaeolithic - 600000 BC to 250001 BC)
BLADE (Upper Palaeolithic - 12000 BC to 10001 BC)
BLADE (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
BLADE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
BORER (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
CORE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
CORE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
END SCRAPER (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
FLAKED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
LEAF ARROWHEAD (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
LEAF ARROWHEAD (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3501 BC)
POLISHED AXEHEAD (Neolithic - 4000 BC to 2351 BC)
RETOUCHED FLAKE (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic - 4000 BC to 3001 BC)
SCRAPER (TOOL) (Early Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 701 BC)
FABRICATOR (Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 701 BC)
SICKLE (Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 1501 BC)
TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD (Late Neolithic - 3000 BC to 2351 BC)
BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
PLANO CONVEX KNIFE (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
PLANO CONVEX KNIFE (Early Bronze Age - 2350 BC to 1501 BC)
TRANSVERSE ARROWHEAD (Beaker to Middle Bronze Age - 2100 BC to 1401 BC)

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Record last edited

Sep 19 2023 3:55PM